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In 1890, the Tariff Act came into place in the United States. It placed tariffs on imports of up to 50%. While touted as a way to build American industry, there was also the hope it would force an annexation of Canada. It backfired. Let's learn more. 🧵1/10

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Mere months ago, the following words would have seemed wildly hyperbolic: Canada🇨🇦 must strengthen its defences vs. the US, fast. Our democracy + sovereignty is in serious jeopardy. We only have a few months to get going. Luckily, we can learn from other small democracies, like 🇫🇮+🇸🇪+🇳🇴, with long… 1/x

submitted 33 days ago • 20 comments

ATTN: #yyc #yyccc The Downtown Core Neighbourhood Association is looking for people who live in Calgary's downtown core to serve on the board to help with planning and decision making. We've done lots of cool things in our first four years but need some volunteers to sustain and grow the org.

submitted 11 days ago • 5 comments

There's a House of Commons petition to refuse Trump entry into Canada due to him being a convicted felon, and other reasons. It's currently at almost 39,000 signatures: www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en... #Canada #Trump #cdnpoli

submitted 11 days ago • 3 comments

Canada doesn’t have to have an either/or approach to trade, asserts Canada EU Trade and Investment Association president and CEO Mark Camilleri. “This is about complementarity and diversification, and the EU offers a lot of opportunities.” thewalrus.ca/canada-eu/

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Dear Ontario followers: FOR THE LOVE OF GOD VOTE OH MY GOD PLEASE. The election is this Thursday! February 27th! We had a HORRIFIC voter turnout last election and the current administration is trying to take advantage of low voter turnout with this snap election! Screw that! VOTE!!! ✨

submitted 15 days ago • 35 comments

Albertans are slowly waking up to the depths of the scandal enveloping the UCP government. A lot of folks are wondering how to explain what's going on to people who haven't been tuning in. Here's the what, so what now what, and what's next of the situation. 🧵

submitted 16 days ago • 32 comments

Our team makes the best "criminally not enough views" D&D show on YouTube. Give it a watch and I guarantee you will fall in love with it almost immediately.

submitted 23 days ago • 3 comments

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submitted 25 days ago • 6 comments

An east-west pipeline is neither a short-term nor a long-term solution for Canada. It would take too long to build to help with the current crisis and, even if it got built, it would be competing for a shrinking market with falling prices. New from me: www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...

submitted 26 days ago • 2 comments

Excellent article. ❤️🇨🇦 #cdnpoli #abpoli

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BC plans to expedite 19 natural resource projects in response to US tariff threats. But in some cases those plans could ultimately be a boon to those closest to Trump. My latest for @thetyee.ca. thetyee.ca/News/2025/02...

submitted 28 days ago • 2 comments

If you are hawking yourself as an elite retirement planning service yet don’t factor in CPP, OAS, or Breaths’defined contribution pensions IDKY anyone would pay for your services. Anyway my regular reminder the government has the best tool out there and it is free www.canada.ca/en/services/...

submitted 29 days ago • 3 comments

If Canada's in the mood for some fun and not afraid of the US, we should find $1 billion dollars and offer to fund the labs of top US scientists who move their work here.

submitted 29 days ago • 41 comments

I've decided this year to keep a list of games I've completed. Both to to keep track of my impressions and to maybe encourage me to complete more games rather than getting totally distracted half way through and moving on to something else. So here we go a thread of games I've completed in 2025:

submitted 29 days ago • 1 comment

A right-wing dark money group backed by some big names has launched a new public health “academy” complete with its own medical “journal.” The editorial board of this new publication is stacked with COVID contrarians and misinformation spreaders. www.importantcontext.news/p/a-new-acad...

submitted 31 days ago • 42 comments

American health workers looking to relocate? Doorway to practice medicine in Canada 🇨🇦 We have job openings nationwide. www.canada.ca/en/immigrati...

submitted 35 days ago • 139 comments

hey guys! we need to raise 18 thousand PHP (308 USD) for our house amortization by jan 29th so im opening unlimited slots on my comms! additionally, i have a kofi if youd like to help but dont want a comm! ko-fi.com/dangerouscol... shares appreciated! thank you!

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In case you don’t have a subscription. “Ms Smith’s support of Mr Trump will cost us all.”

submitted 52 days ago • 6 comments

LFG. This talk by Kannon Pearson is killing. We are all screaming. This talk has had more woos than any science talk I’ve ever been to. Kannon is a newt biologist. We’re talking about how frogs are popular in queer online spaces.

submitted 65 days ago • 25 comments

~Elizabeth May really has been the voice of reason! "What happens with an election is that there is then only a caretaker role for whatever govt is in place during the time the Trump White House is forming" It's crucial that Canada “negotiate from a position of strength”

submitted 64 days ago • 3 comments

Conservatives in Canada seem to believe that if -- or when -- the carbon tax is removed, food price inflation will disappear. Trevor Tombe and Jennifer Winter have shown why that isn't the case with their recent study. Allow me to pile on a bit here. Thread time.

submitted 66 days ago • 19 comments

if you see this post, your actions are: - if you have a spare buck, give it to Wikipedia, then repost this - if you don't have a spare buck, just repost your action is mandatory for the world's best source of information to survive

submitted 74 days ago • 219 comments

Glaze for music? Glaze for music.

submitted 68 days ago • 9 comments

A wind company denies it coerced landowners. And unlike with oil and gas projects, landowners can reject a wind farm — so why do some feel so powerless?

submitted 70 days ago • 8 comments

Not sure how Danielle Smith plans to get an elevated LRT through the +15 network? You're not alone.

submitted 79 days ago • 4 comments

Some truth right here

submitted 84 days ago • 50 comments

People are good if you know where to look. Please remember that the loudest of folks are usually the worst. People are GOOD and people care about each other. Try to find the good in the world, even if sometimes it’s harder to find ❤️

submitted 86 days ago • 18 comments

It’s easy to look at the Jesse singal situation and think “not my problem” or “yeah hope he gets tossed but whatever”, but i do genuinely believe it’s important we make it extremely clear to Bluesky that this should not become a place that welcomes antitrans bigotry and harassment chng.it/GbrnQ7dkWj

submitted 88 days ago • 9 comments

Folks, I've got trouble! My workhorse writing/bookcreating Macbook has developed keyboard & (just now) power issues that mean it's got to go into the shop pronto. Can I point you (tho not UK folks, sorry) at some ebook bundles to help defray the cost? Thanks! (& repost plz?) dduane.link/EBDBundles

submitted 88 days ago • 11 comments

Okay I don’t want to hijack anyone’s post so I’m gonna do a thread re: “trans healthcare is experimental” because I have experience with actual factual experimental medication that I went on when I was 15. 🧵

submitted 88 days ago • 3 comments

To all Canadian universities: Have you read 🇨🇦’s Chief Science Advisor’s latest report on the very real post-Covid harms of reinfections? She tells institutions to implement protections like better iAQ and yes, masking. Saying nothing is negligent. PSA campaign needed! Read link & article below:

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Not a bad time to revisit this one: "The story Canadians aren't hearing is of the many successes of universal healthcare." canadahealthwatch.ca/2024/02/10/i...

submitted 93 days ago • 16 comments

A Brief History of Music Today Is Just Noise 🧵

submitted 92 days ago • 10 comments

Spot the difference.

submitted 93 days ago • 12 comments

A List of Things People Blamed on Halley’s Comet 🧵

submitted 93 days ago • 14 comments

All jokes aside it's really fucked up to see so many people on here celebrating murder. No one here is the judge of who deserves to live or die. That's the job of the AI algorithm the insurance company designed to maximise profits on your health and no one else

submitted 95 days ago • 202 comments

Read this thread, and block accordingly.

submitted 96 days ago • 0 comments

When the mask mandate was lifted from Mass General Brigham in May '23, hospital transmission of resp virus went up. When the mandate was re-instituted in Jan '24, infection rates went down. www.news-medical.net/news/2024052...

submitted 101 days ago • 1022 comments

For the 165th anniversary of the publication of Darwin's Origin of Species, here are two theropod dinosaurs—T. rex & a hummingbird. Despite all the differences, T. rex is more closely related evolutionarily to this hummingbird than T. rex is to, say, Allosaurus! Still blows my mind! 🦖 More... 1/2

submitted 106 days ago • 10 comments

Happy 11th annual Thanksgiving to Isabella Jerhigan, and to Isabella Jerhigan only.

submitted 106 days ago • 53 comments

I’m just a girl, contemplating life in a Star Wars universe, asking for us to build a Star Trek universe instead.

submitted 107 days ago • 23 comments